Hooking Canada on sustainable seafood, one day at a time
We helped bring the ocean to Parliament Hill on Tuesday as a member of a group that’s calling on Canada to designate March 18 as National Sustainable Seafood Day. This year’s event on the Hill builds...
View ArticleCelebrate Canada’s oceans at your local fish counter
Last week, WWF and a broad coalition of NGO’s and industry hosted an event on Parliament Hill calling on Canada to mark March 18 as National Sustainable Seafood Day. The idea behind the annual day is...
View ArticleCanada’s largest seafood retailer to carry ASC-certified Atlantic salmon
Close on the heels of last week’s successful National Sustainable Seafood Day event in Ottawa and only a few days before the world-renowned Seafood Expo North America (formerly Boston Seafood Show)...
View ArticleWhale sounds on Parliament Hill: decision makers tuning into conservation
A recent image of coughing pedestrians in Beijing made me think of how scientists try to relate the sound habitat for whales with smog. Distracting, annoying, difficult, sometimes physically harmful,...
View ArticleBecome an Afishionado: Sustainable Seafood Choices
Written by Andrea Moore via Fix.com Fish is in high demand as a superfood rich in omega-3 fatty acids, but the oceans may not be able to keep up the supply because of unsustainable fishing practices....
View ArticleBringing the business of bycatch to light
Next to illegal wildlife trade (poaching), bycatch – the incidental capture of non-target species like whales, sharks and turtles during the fishing process – is the human activity that impacts the...
View ArticleCoral Trafficking: Little did I know, I might be an illegal wildlife trader....
When you hear (or read) the words ‘illegal wildlife trade’, what comes to mind? Is it an image of a lion, taken from its home to be put in a cage, ready for a performance at a circus? Or maybe you...
View ArticleSustainable seafood? The answer to a seafood lover’s dilemma
Being landlocked as I am in Toronto, I unfortunately don’t have the daily pleasure of enjoying the sights, sounds, and smells of our oceans that my colleagues can take advantage of in our offices on...
View ArticleA good World Oceans Day for Sharks and Manta Rays as they receive...
A landmark decision was made this past March at the last CITES Meeting of the Conference of Parties (CoP 16) when the member countries voted to list five species of sharks and manta rays on CITES...
View ArticleA city-dweller’s love for the oceans
By Rachel Wang, Research Intern, WWF-Canada I didn’t grow up on the ocean coast, and so I am sad to say that when I was asked by WWF staff why I love the ocean, I didn’t have a heart-warming story to...
View ArticleScience lacking in northern cod quota increase
HOLD your breath. A week before World Oceans Day, Canada published an alarming notice on a back page of a DFO website announcing a 33% increase in the quota for the northern cod “stewardship” fishery....
View ArticleStudents on Ice: Fishing for Global Solutions in Pang
“What kills a fishery is the banker” says Trevor. We’re standing outside the Pangnirtung fish plant, looking out at the rocky flat, left bare by the low tide. A fishing boat leans into the mud, as...
View ArticleTesting the waters: experimenting new tools in shark conservation
Some days our work takes us to pretty amazing places. Last Saturday, I dropped off our shark project coordinator, Jarrett Corke, at the fishing wharf in West Head, southwestern Nova Scotia. His...
View ArticleRecent Humpback Whale Entanglement in the Bay of Fundy
I have some friends that do some pretty amazing things to help wildlife. On Sunday, I got word through the stranding network I help run in Nova Scotia, the Marine Animal Response Society, that a...
View ArticleVictory in Norway. Can we do it in Canada?
There are exceptional places on this planet that are so valuable we must do all we can to protect them. The only way to ensure that exceptional marine and coastal ecosystems are protected from the...
View ArticleDenial on the rocks and the deadly cocktail that’s impairing our oceans
I’ve been thinking a lot about the human condition recently. I’m not a philosopher – barstool or otherwise – but the unequivocal sense of denial that permeates our lives intrigues me. Denial about the...
View ArticleFish Friday: From The Palace you can see the ocean: Montreal chef Gita Seaton...
Written by Gita Seaton, Chef and Owner of Nouveau Palais My name is Gita Seaton; I am chef/owner of Restaurant Nouveau Palais in Montreal. The restaurant has been around for over 80 years, though my...
View ArticleThrough the looking glass: A conservation perspective from a commercial...
Written by Jarrett Corke, Project Coordinator, Sharks I needed time. Time to think. Time to process fleeting memories and photographs and make sense of it all. I know what I expected to find, but the...
View ArticleThousands of jobs rely on the species in the Great Bear
The Great Bear region is an ecological treasure that supports thousands of jobs in tourism and fishing. Marine tourism generates $104.3 million in revenues and provides 2,200 long term jobs. People...
View ArticleCan BC Hold the Line on Protecting our Provincial Fish?
On March 16th 2013 the Government of BC announced that it would be adding pacific salmon as the “official provincial fish emblem.” In the press release, then Environment Minister Terry Lake stated,...
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